SSO President, James Howe, MD, interviews George Chang, MD, MD Anderson Cancer Center, about his experience being diagnosed with and recovering from COVID-19. Dr. Howe and Dr. Chang discussed symptoms, testing, his hospitalization, returning to work and Dr. Chang’s experience donating his plasma to help give others passive immunity.

In this episode of SurgOnc Today™, Armando Giuliano, MD, Tari King, MD and Melissa Pilewskie, MD, discuss the management of the axilla after preoperative systemic therapy. Evaluation of the axilla pre- and post chemotherapy along with surgical management is discussed in a case with a 3 cm, poorly differentiated invasive ductal carcinoma.

In this episode of SurgOnc Today™, Armando Giuliano, MD, Tari King, MD and Otto Metzger, MD, discuss the choice between preoperative endocrine therapy and preoperative chemotherapy in hormone receptor positive breast cancer patients. Evaluation and treatment is discussed for a post-menopausal woman presenting a 3.4 cm node negative, invasive ductal carcinoma

In this episode of SurgOnc Today, Ajay Maker, MD, Director of Surgical Oncology at AIMMC/Creticos Cancer Center at the University of Illinois at Chicago, interviews SSO Gastrointestinal Disease Site Work Group members about the most influential papers in GI surgical oncology from 2019. Four conversations cover topics including:

• A recent Lancet study about combination chemotherapy for pancreatic cancer
• Advanced gastric cancer and perioperative chemotherapy regimens
• New therapies for metastatic gastric cancer
• An Annals of Surgical Oncology paper about diagnosing GI cancers from circulating tumor DNA

Ajay Maker, MD, is the Director of Surgical Oncology at AIMMC/Creticos Cancer Center, and Associate Professor in the Department of Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology at the University of Illinois at Chicago

Evan S. Glazer, MD, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Surgery  and Principal Investigator, Center for Cancer Research at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center

Yanghee Woo, MD, is Director, Gastroenterology Minimally Invasive Therapy Program and Associate Clinical Professor, Division of Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery at City of Hope

Mio Kitano, MD, is Assistant Professor in the Division of Surgical Oncology and Endocrine Surgery at the University of Texas Health San Antonio

Carlos Chan, MD, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Surgery, Director-Molecular Epidemiology Resource Core, Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology, Assistant Professor of Surgery, Surgical Oncology and Endocrine Surgery at the University of Iowa

SSO President, David L. Bartlett, MD speaks with SSO Colorectal Disease Site Work Group Chair, George J. Chang, MD, MS. Dr. Chang is the Deputy Department Chair, Department of Surgical Oncology, Division of Surgery, Chief, Section of Colon and Rectal Surgery at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX.

SSO President, David L. Bartlett, MD speaks with SSO HPB Disease Site Work Group Vice Chair, Melissa E. Hogg, MD, MS. Dr. Hogg is the Director of HPB Surgery, Director of Robotic Training for Grainger Labs and Northshore University Healthsystem, Evanston, IL.

SSO President-Elect, James R. Howe, MD, speaks with SSO Breast Cancer Disease Site Work Group Vice Chair, Kandace P. McGuire, MD. Dr. McGuire is the Chief, Section of Breast Surgery at the Massey Cancer Center at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA.

SSO President-Elect, James R. Howe, MD provides various perspectives on endocrine cancers and COVID-19. Dr. Howe is the Director, Surgical Oncology and Endocrine Surgery at the Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA.

SSO President-Elect, James R. Howe, MD provides speaks with SSO Melanoma Disease Site Work Group Chair, Giorgos C. Karakousis, MD. Dr. Karakousis is an Associate Professor of Surgery at the Abramson Cancer Center University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.

SSO President, David L. Bartlett, MD, speaks with SSO Peritoneal Surface Malignancy Disease Site Work Group Chair, Kiran K. Turaga, MD, MPH and SSO Sarcoma Disease Site Work Group Vice Chair, Aimee M. Crago, MD, PhD. Dr. Turaga is the Vice Chief, Section of General Surgery and Surgical Oncology (Strategy and Finance), Director, Surgical GI Cancer Program, Director, Regional Therapeutics Program at the University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, IL. Dr. Crago is a Surgical Oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY.